2009/11/30 Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Duane Griffin wrote: >> 2009/11/24 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: >> > On Tue 2009-11-24 12:53:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> >> I still believe leaving the current semantics and documenting them is >> >> the best option. >> > >> > I believe that current semantics is ugly enough that 'documenting' it >> > is not enough... and people want to port from other systems, too, not >> > expecting nasty surprises like this... >> >> Solaris 10 works the same way as Linux does now, so I don't think the >> porting argument gets you anywhere. > > It certainly must be similar, as gnulib uses the same technique on > both Solaris and Linux. > > I don't have a Solaris to try this on. Can you use /proc to re-open > with O_RDWR a file descriptor previously opened with O_RDONLY on > Solaris 10, assuming the underlying inode allows writing? Yep, I basically followed Pavel's recipe and got the same result. On the other hand, it didn't work on AIX. > -- Jamie Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
